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In the summer of 1777, while the British and the Americans were engaged in the bitter American Revolution, a massive campaign was launched from Canada into New York State. Brigadier Barry St. Leger led a crucial expedition from Lake Ontario into the Mohawk Valley. The goal was to travel by waterways to join Lieutenant General John Burgoyne in the siege of Albany. But Leger encountered obstacles along the way. While laying siege to Fort Stanwix, Leger received word that Benedict Arnold was...
| Автор | Gavin K. Watt |
A musical genre as tough and hard as the Canadian Shield. Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium. The road to Canadian musical glory is not lined with the palm trees and top-down convertibles of the Sunset Strip. It is a road slick with black ice, obscured...
| Автор | Sean Kelly |
What do Superman, Prince Valiant, Cerebus the Aardvark, and Spawn have in common? Their creators – Joe Shuster, Harold Foster, Dave Sim, and Todd McFarlane are Canadians. And while many of the cutting-edge talents of contemporary comix and graphic novels are also from Canada – artists such as Chester Brown, Seth, Dave Cooper, and Julie Doucet – far too few Canadians realize their country had a remarkable involvement with the «funnies» long before. Invaders from the North profiles past and...
| Автор | John Bell |
It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both. As the war escalates in Afghanistan, more Canadians are asking what we are doing there. For a country that has specialized in peacekeeping, this war is a shock one that we have not yet comprehended. As the casualties mount, Canadians will want to know why we are there. Canada in Afghanistan introduces readers to Afghans and their culture, gives historical background from...
| Автор | Peter Pigott |
Of special interest to coin and bill collectors, as well as history buffs and students, is this clear, concise and intriguing explanation of the various coins and currencies used in Canada between 1600 and 1900. Covering the French, British, and Canadian periods of our history, the wide range of currencies used is explained: livres, pounds, playing cards, louis d’ors, eagles, shillings and dollars among others. Divided into geographical sections, each area of Canada, from Newfoundland to the...
| Автор | A.B. McCullough |
Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions is a nostalgic musical journey, recapturing the unforgettable music of youth and lasting friendships, the days when the live mellow sounds of Big Bands wafted through the air – Louis Armstrong, the Dorsey Brothers, Bert Niosi, Art Hallman, Johnny Downs, Mart Kenney, Bobby Kinsman, Ronnie Hawkins … Throughout the 1920s to the '60s, numerous legendary entertainers drew thousands of people to such...
| Автор | Peter Young |
Mike Filey’s «The Way We Were» column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 3 , the third volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches is a nostalgic journey for the...
| Автор | Mike Filey |
The two studies in Interest Groups and Elections in Canada explore the nature and influence of special interest groups. They consider different aspects of the question, "In the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms , how can the laws intended to secure a fair electoral process be reconciled with freedom of expression?" Janet Hiebert reviews the limits on interest groups adopted in 1974 and amended in 1983, profiles the groups involved int he 1988 federal election, and...
| Автор | F. Leslie Seidle |
This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which...
| Автор | George S. MacDonell |
The stories of many POW escapees are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day? This compelling book tells some of the epic stories of the thousands of shot-down airmen, including Canadians from across the country, who got out from behind enemy lines in Europe, the Far East, and Africa during the Second World War. Based on special first-hand interviews and new research into official debriefing documents held at...
| Автор | Graham Pitchfork |
In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department waged a decisive campaign against the northern frontier of New York. Their primary target was the Mohawk River region, known to be the «grainbowl» that fed Washington’s armies. The Burning of the Valleys details the actions of both sides in this exciting and incredibly effective British campaign. General Frederick Haldimand of Canada possessed a potent...
| Автор | Gavin K. Watt |
In the midst of the Second World War, the Germans introduced a new kind of warfare that had never been seen before, featuring a new kind of soldier: the paratrooper. The public and military alike were astonished by the feats of daring and martial prowess displayed by the intrepid troops, who soon became the epitome of the modern combat soldier. The Allies countered by setting up their own airborne forces. In Canada, 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion was established to serve as the «tip of the...
| Автор | Bernd Horn |
The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year Liberal reign in Canadian politics and saw the House of Commons shift from one minority government to another. The chapters, composed by leading political writers, commentators, and pollsters, examine the strategies, successes, and blunders of the major players – the Conservatives, Liberals, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois, and Greens – and also explore the role of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Media, Elections and Democracy examines campaign communication in selected industrial democracies. Klaus Schoenbach, Karen Siune, Doris Graber and a host of authors around the world contribute critical overviews of the systems in their countries. The studies deal with a wide range of issues in modern communication, including the principles and practices of news and public affairs coverage and the impact of new technologies.
| Автор | Frederick J. Fletcher |
An inventive and ruthless covert force, the Special Operations Executive revolutionized sabotage and infiltration, and inspired many of the classic James Bond characters The first book about the Canadian connection to the WWI-era British black-ops group SOE. Readers will know the SOE from classic films like Bridge over the River Kwai , The Guns of Navarone , not to mention the Bond films and books that drew inspiration from them. Author is a decorated Canadian Forces officer and director of...
| Автор | Bernd Horn |
2016 Speaker's Book Award – Shortlisted 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award – Nominated An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War. What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the Riveter” so popularly advertised to promote factory work in war propaganda posters?...
| Автор | Barbara Dickson |
A collection of essays on the war in Iraq; including pieces by Jean Chrétien and John Howard, the prime ministers during the war. When it was declared in 2003, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. While a few of America's partners, like Australia, joined in the war, many, including Canada, refused to take part. However the war in Iraq was viewed at the time, though, it is clear that that war and the war in Afghanistan have had a profound and lasting impact on...
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Afghanistan is a long way from both Canada and Australia, but from 2001, fate conspired to bring the three countries together. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Australia and Canada joined the U.S. and other Western allies in attacking al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. <br/> <br/> Operation Enduring Freedom began on October 4, 2001, but this was only the beginning of a much longer engagement in Afghanistan for both Canada and Australia, with a legacy much more ambiguous...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Explores a wild, controversial theory and the evidence suggesting that China may have colonized Canada long before Europe did Author’s previous book, The Island of Seven Cities , published in 2006, sold 6,000 copies in Canada The topic of whether or not there were Chinese settlers in Cape Breton is a highly debated topic In the vein of Gavin Menzes, the author of 1421: The Year China Discovered the World and an outspoken writer who has written many books on early Chinese settlements
| Автор | Paul Chiasson |
The poems in Alight alternate between the estranging familial and strangely familiar, between burning and illumination. As father, husband, and physician, Fady Joudah gives children and vulnerable others voice in this hauntingly lyrical collection, where, with quiet ferociousness, one’s self can be reclaimed from suffering’s grip over mind and spirit. Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician of internal medicine. He received his medical training...
| Автор | Fady Joudah |
• Machado’s popularity is likened to that of Rilke • utterly unique prose supporting the book—preface by John Dos Passos and reminiscence by Juan Ramón Jiménez • Barnstone is a foremost translator-poets bringing into English a dizzying range of work, from Mao to the New Testament • this book represents Barnstone’s first published translations, which appeared in 1959 in England and never distributed in US • Barnstone has...
| Автор | Antonio Machado |
• First time in English • Nobel laureate Tagore is one of the 20th century’s great poets • In 2001, Tagore’s work entered the public domain, so new, refreshing translations are becoming available. (His work was tightly guarded by Visva Bharati University [the university Tagore created], so much of Tagore’s poetry that exists in English translation is wooden—even Tagore’s own translations.) • When Tagore...
| Автор | Rabindranath Tagore |
The history you don’t know is the most fascinating of all. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Waterloo, Ontario, could be any small Canadian community. Its familiar histories privilege the “great accomplishments” of those who built the institutions we know today: industry, government, and education. But what of those who were marginalized, weird, and wonderful – real people who lived between the boundaries of mainstream existence? Waterloo You Never Knew reveals forgotten...
| Автор | Joanna Rickert-Hall |
In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialogue underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Rob Swigart’s latest work humanizes the rapid...
| Автор | Rob Swigart |